![]() ![]() Like Alexander Armstrong on the recently released “Not Now Bernard” ( reviewed here), Fry’s Received Pronunciation ensures pristine clarity. The choice of vocabulary Fry employs is rich and varied, and needs repeated listening to fully appreciate. Speaking with a natural rhythm, he uses the different ranges of his voice eloquently. In the five tails – ‘The Story Of Chaos’, ‘The Story of Rhea’, ‘The Story of Persephone’, ‘The Story of Apollo & Marsyas’ and ‘The Story of Sisyphus’ – Fry is expressive in his narration throughout, bringing a perfectly pitched sense of drama. Some of the music is a little clichéd, but this enhances the drama to Fry’s narration.įry’s stories are well chosen. ![]() Her understanding of how to use an orchestra to create soundscapes is exceptional one doesn’t need the narration to feel the storytelling in the soundscapes she creates. Fry narrates his own chosen texts, to which Wiseman has composed evocative music conjuring-up a range of emotions, moods and atmospheres. ![]()
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